Dead Northern Horror Film Festival 2024

3 DAYS OF HORROR MOVIES, EVENTS, Q&A's, PARTIES,
FOOD & DRINK IN THE WORLDS MOST HAUNTED CITY

Fri 27 - Sun 29 SEPTEMBER 2024

City Screen Picturehouse - York - England

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DEAD NORTHERN 2024 - DAY 1

Friday 27th September 2024

11:00

Student Shorts

Tasty tongue • Wick • Strings • Did you get that? • Next please • Dead body • The bloke in the boot • The Journey Home

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12:30

Feature - UK Premiere - ALL THIS TIME  + Q&A

Trapped with a mysterious vampire in an endless time loop, Grace must unlock the secrets of the house, the previous night’s party, and her own past, to find any hope of escaping and returning to her normal life and young child.

Director: Rob Worsey

Key Cast: Dan De Bourg, Emma Pallant, Emily Rose Holt

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Fear Cabin Movie Poster

14:30
Feature - World Premiere - FEAR CABIN

Six friends rent a cabin in the middle of the woods on the last weekend of summer and set out to have an amazing time full of partying and drinking. Little do they know that they will be sharing this cabin with an unexpected guest, will they make it out alive?

Director: Brian Krainson

Key Cast: Jeremy London, Brody Wellmaker, Violet SinClair, Brian Krainson, Jennifer Barlow, Mackenzie Messick, Wyatt London, Lily Misticawi, Jeff Holcomb, Parker Denning, Bianca Medeiros Krainson

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16:00
Mysterious shorts

Les Bêtes • VHX • Merkurio • Fisitor • Lord of the free range • Demons in the closet

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18:00
DEAD TALK Found footage horror

With The Independent Horror Society

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19:15
Feature - UK Premiere - STICKMAN'S HOLLOW + Recorded Q&A

A young couple on a fishing trip with their son decide to explore an area of remote wilderness known as the Stickman’s Hollow. Told through the surviving pieces of footage from their fateful trip, the film documents the family’s vacation as they are mercilessly hunted in the forest by an unknown force, and the dark past of the hollow is brought to light.

Director: Jack Cox

Key Cast: Thomas Cadrot, Michael Adamthwaite, Jason Simpson, Lucy McNulty, Aidan Drummond

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21:00 - Classic Feature - The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.Directors: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez

Key Cast: Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, Michael C. Williams, Bob Griffin, Jim King, Sandra Sánchez, Ed Swanson, Patricia DeCou, Mark Mason, Susie Gooch

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10:30

Opening Social @ Revolution York
Coney Street, York YO1 9NA England

DEAD NORTHERN 2024 - DAY 2

Saturday 28th September 2024

11:00 

Demonic shorts

Collection only • Embrace • Daughters of Evil • Dance with the Devil • Easter Eggs • Match  • The Rising of the Sap • Five turns • Puzzle box: The Glitch

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Scopophobia-Poster

12:30 

Feature - Regional Premier Scopophobia  + Q&A

Four girls return home to a ghost town but find themselves being followed. By someone who knows what they did? Or just their guilty conscience? There's more to each girl than meets the eye.

Director: Aled Owen

Key Cast: Emma Stacey, Steffan Cennydd, Ioan Hefin, Nathan Sussex, Aled Owen, Rhodri Miles, Christine Kempell, Kevin McCurdy, Lisa Marged, Erwan Sion, Catrin Jones, Ellen Jane-Thomas, Thom Robin, Bethany Williams-Potter, Garry Sowerby, Colin Lewis

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14:30

Slasher, Thriller & Creature shorts

Safe • Skulk • Body Worn Video • The Curse of the velvet Vampire • Nervous Ellie • Black Hole Barry • The Mannequin • What a catch • Little Brown Bird • Do not open

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16:30

Feature - UK Premier The Healing

A5 Lyuba needs help, only she doesn’t know about it yet. She’s in a trap, married to a man who treats her like an expensive accessory. Once she agrees to go for the weekend with her friends to a trendy psychological training to gather her strength and try to get her relationship with her husband back on track.

Director: Den Hook (Krychkov)

Key CastL Alyona Mitroshina, Wolfgang Cerny, Vyacheslav Chepurchenko, Ekaterina Solomatina, Victoria Skitskaya, Maxim Khanzhov, Alexander Shein

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19:30

DEAD TALK Film making Panel

With The Independent Horror Society

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Kill-Your-Lover-Poster

21:00 

Feature - Regional Premier - Kill Your Lover + Q&A

Axel and Dakota are stuck in a toxic relationship, slowly poisoning each other both mentally and physically. When Dakota tries to break it off, it causes a violent physical reaction in Axel that starts transforming him into a monstrous creature with increased aggression, a touch that melts skin and worst of all, he’s contagious…

Directors: Alix Austin, Keir Siewert

Key Cast: Paige Gilmour, Shane Quigley Murphy, May Kelly, Chloe Wigmore, Joshua Whincup

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11:00

VIP Awards Party @ Revolution York
Coney Street, York YO1 9NA England


DEAD NORTHERN 2024 - DAY 3

Sunday 29th September 2024

11:00

Feature Mystery feature

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Strike-Poster

12:45 

Mini Feature
Strike

"When the lonely and isolated Francine is gifted a case of matches made in her controlling husband’s factory, she discovers that within the flames of each match resides the tortured soul of a deceased factory worker, cursed to appear with every strike."

Set against the Matchgirl Strikes of 1888, Strike is a gothic story about friendship and the toxicity that can be hidden behind the guise of love. As we still battle for better working conditions and campaign for equality, this timely short film shows us how far we’ve come by standing still.

Director: Mark Patterson

Key Cast: Gracie LeClere, James Viller, Amy Anderson

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13:15

Feature

The Monster Beneath Us + Q&A

Yorkshire, 1898. A grieving woman and her son move back to the unoccupied house of her ex husband, recently found dead, but they discover that they are not alone inside the house.

Director: Sophie Osbourne

Key Cast: Becca Hirani, Jack Forsyth-Noble, Nicola Wright

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15:45

Music mini feature
The Black Quarry

In this film by HorrorWeb Productions, a black metal band travels to an abandoned quarry to film a music video as intense as their sound. Although the lead singer has his own sinister motivations in mind for shooting there, what lurks beneath the quarry proves to be more menacing than his twisted intentions.

Director: Corey Jason Trahan

Key Cast: Sarah Webb Scotty Walker, Jason Rouse, Charles Nestell

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16:30 

Music Videos

Minds Idle - Answers on a postcard

Screaming Eagle - Ghost

Courthouse - 50 shades

Tragic Sasha - Fate’s a bitch

Håndgemeng - The Astronomer

The Fungus - Voodoo

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18:30

Feature - UK Premiere
Kill Victoria

Thirty-something couples PAULA & PETE and JACKY & NIGEL, along with their perpetually single pal NICK (30s) have been best friends for years. Since grade school, the quintette has been inseparable. Until...Nick finally gets engaged to a girl named VICTORIA (28). From that moment, he seems to change. As far as the other four are concerned, driving a wedge through such a tight friendship is unforgivable. One night, the quartet jokingly speculate on how they would kill Victoria in order to save Nick from making “the worst mistake of his life'' by marrying her. However, when Nick brings Victoria on the annual weekend cottage trip, the killing joke turns into a real plot when Victoria manages to uncover a dark secret about each of the four. It seems that none of their lives are as squeaky-clean as they’d previously let on. Submerged in this private panic, the four decide to re-explore the discussion of how to KILL VICTORIA. Only now, it’s about saving themselves.

And this time, it’s not a game.

Director:Robin Dunne

Key Cast: Laura Vandervoort, Sara Canning, Michael Xavier, Aaron Poole, Gia Sandhu, Robin Dunne

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20:30

Feature - World Premier
Lake Jesup

The year is 2003 and 11 people have gone missing since a killer gator named Bonecrusher was released under suspicious circumstances from local attraction Gator Galaxy.  Rumored to be intentionally released into LAKE JESUP for nefarious reasons -  people are now dying and the owner of Gator Galaxy is not only NOT taking any responsibility for it – he is cashing in on the mania of it all. 

Former Gator Galaxy wrangler and ex con Bubba Coggins, newly out of prison, is presented with the opportunity to have his record expunged if he can find, catch and kill Bonecrusher.  Desperate to clean up his past and begin a new life with his daughter and grandson, Bubba’s moral compass becomes immediately challenged when he finds himself willing to do ANYTHING, even kill, to accomplish his task of extinguishing Bonecrusher’s reign of terror. 

Director: Michael Houston King

Key Cast: Danny Nucci, Derek Russo, Sarah Voigt, Kent Shocknek, Michael Houston King, Nick Schroeder, Katie Gibbons, Jeff Benninghofen, Savannah Grace Elmer, Essex O'Brien, Grant Jay, Simon Lee, Alexia Aldebol, Scot Scurlock, Mario Xavier, Finley Raser, Kelley Mauro

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2024 Horror Film Festival

Dead Northern Horror Film Festival (27-29 September 2024)

VENUE - City Screen Picturehouse, York

Our main event of the year Dead Northern Horror Film Festival 2024.

A selection of independent short, feature length and classic films at the stunning Picturehouse cinema in the UK's spookiest city - York. 

Expect to meet filmmakers from all over the world, showcasing their talent with the latest releases in the indie horror community. We'll be putting the 'Festival' in film festival with a number of live events, entertainment and talks from industry professionals, all topped off with some mouth-watering food and drink!

Ticket details and T&C's below...

(OVER 18's only)

Screen pass includes: 

VIP personalised Lanyard, exclusive Dead Northern 2024 Festival T-Shirt, access to all showings at the festival, 5x entries into our annual prize raffle including signed horror merchandise, films and much more.

RELEASED JULY 2024

VIP Festival Pass Includes:   

VIP personalised Lanyard, exclusive Dead Northern 2024 Festival T-Shirt, access to all showings at the festival, 5x entries into our annual prize raffle including signed horror merchandise, films and much more. As well as access to our VIP festival awards party.

*Concessions tickets are for full-time students, persons aged over 60, and CEA card holders. Discounted tickets will require the pass holder to carry valid student ID/Identification/CEA card on their persons for the duration of the festival, to be checked by staff and volunteers.

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SCHEDULE TO BE RELEASED 25th AUGUST 2024

*Should the event be unable to go ahead; the event will be re-scheduled for a later date or refunds will be issued.

DEAD NORTHERN 2023 TICKET TERMS AND CONDITIONS: 1. All Dead Northern tickets are non-refundable unless stated otherwise 2. Dead Northern E-Tickets are UNIQUE TO EACH ATTENDEE(S) 3. You must be at least 18 years of age in order to gain entry to Dead Northern festival events 4. Valid photographic ID is required upon entry to verify your E-Ticket and age. Suitable forms of valid photographic ID include your passport and driver’s licence. photocopies are not acceptable times of events will be listed via our website www.deadnorthern.co.uk. Last entry for each event is stated in the event programming. If you arrive after this time you will not be allowed into the event and your ticket will not be refunded. All E-Tickets have a unique barcode. Duplicate E-Tickets will be refused at the door and you will not be able to gain entry to the festival.

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